Smart materials represent a cutting-edge global trend both in fundamental science and emerging technologies. Smart materials science is a truly interdisciplinary area at the intersection of physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, mathematical simulations, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and etc. An online course in smart materials will be of obvious interest for everyone who is interested in modern materials science and emerging trends in engineering, biotechnology, and medicine.
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Smart Materials: Microscale and Macroscale Approaches
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityAbout this Course
What you will learn
Identify the properties of smart materials that can be valuable in a specific area of application.
Apply theoretical and experimental approaches to designing, fabricating, and tuning properties of selected solid state and soft matter materials.
Utilize the potential of lab on chip technologies for materials science applications.
Skills you will gain
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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has a long-standing and successful history over 100 years where a great deal of important discoveries and inventions have been made. It was founded in 1899.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Smart Materials: Key Concepts
The module focuses on the key concepts of smart materials. We discuss the definition of smart materials, perform an overview of materials with smart properties, and offer specific terminology that you can learn with the Quizlet platform.
Behind Smart Properties
The module focuses on nanoscale and microscale features behind the properties of smart materials. You will see that the majority of smart properties root in the nanoscale organization of matter and supramolecular interactions.
Smart Materials: Research Methods
This module introduces macroscale research methods that can be useful for characterization of smart materials. We subdivide research techniques into three main groups: microscopy, spectroscopy, and numerical methods. We also perform experiments with real smart materials.
Lab on chip for smart materials
In this module, we focus on an exciting microscale approach to fabrication, modification, and characterization of smart materials, that is microfluidics. We will learn how to fabricate microfluidic chips, simulate microfluidic processes, and perform experiments with soft matter in confinement.
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